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Rethinking Biology: Public Understandings (Hardcover)
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Rethinking Biology: Public Understandings (Hardcover)
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'Rethinking Biology offers many useful perspectives on a range of
topics: why neuroscience and brain imaging threaten to create a
reductive view of self and behaviour every bit as misleading as the
genetic one, why adaptationism needs taming in evolutionary
narratives ...'Public Understanding of ScienceBiologists always
need to grapple with integrating two explanatory approaches. On the
one hand, there is necessarily an effort to drill down to the
lowest possible level to explain what is happening in whatever is
being studied. That involves looking at how higher-level processes
arise from lower level ones. On the other hand, there is a need to
consider how the broader context influences bottom-up processes;
that involves looking at how the whole influences the parts.
Neither approach is satisfactory on its own. There is always a need
to integrate the consideration of how parts influence wholes with
how wholes influence parts.This book arises from a concern that in
the public dissemination of biology the need to integrate these
different perspectives is not coming across well. In
popularisations, simplistic micro explanations always seem to
arouse most interest and to capture the headlines. That risks
distorting and simplifying the complexity of biological processes,
and can mislead people. In this book we are urging a concerted
attempt to come to grips with the interactive complexity of
biology, and to find ways of conveying it to the public accessibly
and effectively.We are particularly concerned with how biology is
communicated to the public. Too often, what comes over to the
public is a crude, out-of-date, simplistic, mono-causal,
reductionist biology. Why so? Why is biology so misrepresented? Who
is responsible? It is partly the media, of course, but we suggest
that biologists themselves are often partly responsible. When it
comes to communication with the public, they tend to over-simplify
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